Topics as diverse as a new hotel on Ga. Highway 74 and a proposed garbage transfer station dotted the landscape at the Tuesday meeting of the Fairburn City Council. Approval of the conceptual site plan for Holiday Inn Express was voted in by the council, while the future of the transfer station on Bohannon Road was put on hold until August.

The 1.97-acre Holiday Inn Express site is located on the west side of Hwy. 74 between Oakley Industrial Boulevard and Peachtree Landing Circle and directly to the rear of The Package Store. As proposed, the area’s fifth hotel in the past two years will consist of a four-story structure with 75 rooms.

The development would provide for the continuation of an interparcel access road to connect to Oakley by way of the Sleep Inn, located immediately to the north of the Holiday Inn property. City development plans call interparcel access roads to be constructed on all properties on both sides of Hwy. 74 between I-85 and Milam Road.

Also at the meeting, the council considered a conceptual site plan for Fairburn Transfer Station, located on Bohannon Road north of I-85. An inert recycling facility is currently located on the 26.48-acre site. Walker Brothers proposed to construct a transfer station on the property that would handle household trash and construction waste, essentially providing a mid-point between the site of generation and the final disposal of trash into a landfill. Project representatives said the transfer station would not emit off-site odors, would produce no pollution in the surrounding areas and would be cleaned each day.

Citing potential environmental issues, neighbor Sandra Hardy questioned whether leachate from water usage at the site would absorb into the ground, contaminating the stream that runs through the property and endangering the well water of the residents on Creekwood Rd. This stream feeds into Line Creek which is the water supply for Tyrone and Peachtree City and already has dead spots, she said. Hardy also cited a concern that combined motorist safety and esthetics, dating to the time when the property was used as an inert recycling facility .

“From day one this facility on Bohannon has been an eye sore. Those of us that live in the area suffer with debris fallen from trucks and after a rain we then have to put up with mud mixed in with the debris. This facility has not been a good neighbor. You can’t put lipstick on a pig,” Hardy said.

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